Yiyú Finke
Bio
Yiyú Finke was born on November 17, 1960, in Aristóbulo del Valle, km 8½, Misiones, Argentina. She holds a Master’s degree in Methodology of Research in Visual Arts and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts. She studied with Pablo Siquier. Her practice brings together painting, writing, and object-making, developing a body of work that intertwines visual arts and literature. She is also a yerba mate sommelier and bartender at Hormiga Bar.
Her recent exhibitions include Motor, with a text by Carlos Herrera, at Tramo (2025); Yiyú, pinturas, with a text by Paola Vega (2023); the video Mesa Chica #paisimaginado for the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2020); Barroco Mini (2015), an installation presented as a guest in the exhibition Filiaciones by Augusto and León Ferrari; Perfeccionismo paralizante. Impurezas de la angustia, curated by Daniel Fischer (2014); Silencio, at Palacio del Mate (2014); and Mandioca Nueva 3.000 años (2010), with a text by Florencia Battiti.
She has received fellowships from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Fundación Antorchas, UNAM, Fundación para la Amistad Americana, and Centro Cultural de España. She has participated in writing and artwork reading workshops with Silvia Gurfein, Iosi Havilio, Andrés Waisman, and Ticio Escobar. She has been part of collectives such as MorotíCuá, 13b, XXX, 118, Kiosco Galería de Arte, ACMI, and Hormiga Bar.
Statement
Yiyú Finke has lived and worked in Misiones since she was born in 1960. Her practice develops artistic operations and projects that bring together painting, writing, and space. Devoted to the triadic universe of painting–writing–space, she has developed a repertoire of recurring images such as the cassava leaf, the ant, Vaca Barby, bunches of bananas, vases, and textile structures. Since 1994, she has been building an ongoing dialogue between a shed and a rural house located in Salto Encantado. Persistent in her practice and with a historical body of work spanning from 1982 to the present, she situates her activity within artistic initiatives interested in decolonization and cooperation in art. She has been and continues to be part of several collaborative working groups.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
